The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERAn idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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